The Graduate English Organization of Truman State University is proud toannounce the call for papers for their annual conference April 10-11,2009!

Our speaker this year will be author extraordinaire Mary Ruefle, who haspublished several books of poetry and prose as well as a comic book.Inspired by her unique work A Little White Shadow, our conference isentitled â€œObliterature: The Art of Creative Destruction.â€ We arelooking for presentations, creative and scholarly, that deal with thebreaking down of culture and art, the imaginative implosions within thewritten word, or simply those ideas that are not just out of the box butcrush it.

If youâ€™d like to do a creative presentation of displaying your art works,describe the collection in your proposal and be sure to note specificallywhat kind of art it is (sculpture, painting, etc.), including pictures ifpossible. We also encourage creative presentations involvingtheatre/performing arts, poetry, and prose.

Send your proposal (no attachments unless they are pictures, please) ofno more than 250 words to tsack_at_truman.edu by midnight on November 30,2008. Please make sure that you note your name and preferred e-mailaddress in your submission as well as whether you are planning a creativeor scholarly presentation. Write â€œGEO conference proposalâ€ in thesubject line of the e-mail. Acceptance notifications will be sent out byearly January 2009. We cannot give out funds for travel/lodgingexpenses.